Funny Girl

Informationen zum Autor NICK HORNBY is the bestselling author of eight novels, including Just Like You , High Fidelity and About a Boy , and several works of nonfiction including Fever Pitch . He has also written numerous award-winning screenplays for film and television including Brooklyn , Wild and, most recently, State of the Union . Klappentext Nick Hornby is the author of six bestselling novels: High Fidelity ; About a Boy ; How to be Good ; A Long Way Down ; Juliet, Naked ; and Funny Girl ; as well as a novel for young adults, Slam . His non-fiction includes Fever Pitch , 31 Songs , The Complete Polysyllabic Spree and Stuff I've Been Reading . He has written numerous screenplays including the Oscar-nominated An Education and Brooklyn . Zusammenfassung Barbara Parker is Miss Blackpool of 1964, but she doesn't want to be a beauty queen. She only wants to make people laugh. So she leaves her hometown behind, takes herself off to London, and lands a life-changing audition for a new BBC comedy series. Overnight she becomes Sophie Straw: charming, gorgeous, destined to win the nation's hearts.

Product details

• Authors: Nick Hornby, Hornby Nick
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.05.2015
• EAN: 9780241965221
• ISBN: 978-0-241-96522-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; London, Greater London, Humour, TV tie-in humour, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Modern and contemporary fiction, c 1960 to c 1969